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If-Then and Antiquities of the Future

John Battelle's Searchblog

Anyone can criticize it now, (or, I suppose, steal it), but then again, I did the very same thing with the core idea in my last book ( The Database of Intentions , back in 2003), and that worked out just fine. We’d think out loud: “If every school had access to the Internet, then what might change about education?”

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If-Then and Antiquities of the Future

John Battelle's Searchblog

Anyone can criticize it now, (or, I suppose, steal it), but then again, I did the very same thing with the core idea in my last book ( The Database of Intentions , back in 2003), and that worked out just fine. We’d think out loud: “If every school had access to the Internet, then what might change about education?”